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Nov 2021
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Editor’s Picks: November 22nd 2021

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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week: a new era of big government, the revival of far-right ideas in France (10:34) and our Bartleby column on the business phrasebook (19:04) 

 

 

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